Names Of Inventors For Coomuncation Flashcards

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Who was the first group of people to communicate (the oldest form of communication) and how did they communicate

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The San people : language of clicks. They used language songs stories dancing and rock art. They used a trance around fire to connect with the creator, Kaggen

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Who invented the telegram

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Samuel Morse who invented the Morse Code, telegram transmitted electrical signals over wires that connected different stations. The most could use dots and dashes for the letters of the alphabet.

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Who invented the telephone. How far away was first long-distance call.

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Alexander Graham Bell - when experimenting with the telegraph he discovered you could send the sound of a human voice along an electrical wire. First call was 3.2 km away.

Face appeared in 1970s

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What was the name of the first postage stamp issued in the United Kingdom

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The Penny Black - you buy a stamp and put on a letter

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Who invented the radio (also called a wireless) and who won the Nobel prize for physics

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Who invented the typewriter (first alphabetical, later QWERTY)

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Christopher Latham Sholes

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Who invented the television
HINT: grandpa John sitting watching to with a beard

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Many people but two most well known : John Logie Baird (1925) and later also Philo Farnsworth

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Who invented the first camera (very big, needed tripod)
HINT: Alex taking a picture of a cot with a big wall behind it

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Alexander Walcott

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Who invented the smaller box camera and what did he call it
HINT: George sitting on the beach taking a photo of the sunrise in the EAST

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George Eastman and it was called the Kodak camera

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Who loves you so very much

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God, mum and dad😀❤️😀❤️😀❤️😀

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